Stork Fokker, a Stork Aerospace company, announced Feb. 9 that it has received a contract from Boeing for manufacture of CH-47F Chinook aft section major subassemblies. High-speed machining and other capabilities will be employed for the project at Stork Fokker’s facilities in Papendrecht and Hoogeveen, The Netherlands.

Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to undertake a joint research project, the focus of which is on developing manufacturing techniques and utilizing new materials for use in low-pressure turbine blades for the group’s gas turbine engines.

Naval Air Systems Command awarded the Bell Boeing Program Office Phase I of a two-phase Joint Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract in support of the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command to support the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.

Electronic controls are making it safer for operators to stand on an aerial platform that lifts them 50 ft (15 m) in the air. Italian supplier Bluelift teamed up with TTControl to develop controls that stabilize the system and manage most other aspects of vehicle control.

Four new models from Cat mark the new mining truck model line, with some redesigned to allow for an ac-drive option. The trucks have been under development since 2004 and will be introduced over the next two years.

The SiC composite diesel particulate filter (DPF) from Ceramiques Techniques et Industrielles (CTI) and the IFP is made using a cost-effective manufacturing process that enables the production of many different sizes and shapes.

A gaseous-fuel slave control unit from IAV provides the means for upgrading gasoline concepts to run on gaseous fuels quickly and cost-effectively without having to modify the existing engine control unit.

The PTM820 line of electronic control unit (ECU) test solutions from PTM Electronics offers electronics suppliers and remanufacturers development and testing of a range of automotive ECUs including ABS, engine and powertrain controllers, HVAC, body, IPCs, and telematics.

The U.S. EPA will hold a public hearing March 5 on California's request to set its own standards for greenhouse-gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board's 2005 waiver request was denied by the Bush administration in 2006, but President Barack Obama has instructed the EPA to reconsider it.

Goodrich Corp.'s Sensors and Integrated Systems team in Burnsville, MN, has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State University. The tunnel will be the university's first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State's wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory.

Rolls-Royce Corp. selected Eaton Corp. for two applications on the engine for the Airbus A350 XWB program. Eaton will design, develop, and supply both the main engine fuel pump and the engine build-up subsystems for the next generation of Trent engines.

Eurocopter UK announced plans to build a helicopter service center in Dyce, Aberdeen. The facility will offer logistical and technical support and flight simulator training for the U.K.’s main heliport for the offshore oil industry.

Lockheed Martin is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center to accelerate the introduction of innovative technologies into new systems engineering concepts. The corporation will fund $640,000 of research and development projects at Carnegie Mellon in 2009.